On August 1, 2018, Jorge Álvarez González, defended his thesis titled Las raíces de la identidad caribeña: lengua raza y ecología, a translation from English into Spanish of The Roots of Caribbean Identity: Language, Race, and Ecology by Peter A. Roberts.
The Thesis Committee, formed by Aurora Lauzardo, Ph.D., Yvette Torres, M.A., and thesis advisor Alejandro Álvarez Nieves, Ph.D., awarded his thesis the grade notable.